More dinners and movies in the suburbs

Houston is slowly getting used to the idea that having dinner in a movie theater is OK: First Austin's Alamo Drafthouse started hitting the suburbs, with locations at West Oaks and in Katy, and now Dallas's Studio Movie Grill is jumping in with a location in Copperfield.

Studio Movie Grill, which looks like a slightly fancier version of the Alamo — that's Dallas for you — operates locations in Plano and Addison already and plans to add two more in suburban D/FW; the Houston location will be the first outside the Metroplex. The SMG people are reworking a former Loews eight-screen cineplex at Highway 6 and West Road; when it's finished in May, the theater will feature Dolby Digital EX sound, wall-to-wall screens, leather reclining seats and a complete dinner and drink menu. Specials include $2.50 draft beers on Tuesdays and all-you-can-eat pizza on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. SMG-Copperfield will open in May.

So ... when are they gonna put one of these dinner/movie things inside the Loop?